PSD Acronym List
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| A | |
| AHPS | Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System |
| AO | Arctic Oscillation |
| ASOS | Automated Surface Observing System |
| AWC | Aviation Weather Center |
| AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| B | |
| C | |
| CBRFC | Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (SLC Utah) |
| CCA | Canonical Correlation Analysis |
| CDC | Climatic Diagnostics Center |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observations Satellites |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer |
| CIRA | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere |
| CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences |
| CITM | Cooperative Institute for Tropical Meteorology |
| CMAP | CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation |
| C-MAWDS | Computerized Marine Weather Data System |
| CMDL | Climate Modeling Diagnostics Laboratory |
| CMM | Commission for Marine Meteorology |
| CNRFC | California-Nevada River Forecast Center (Sacramento CA) |
| COARE | Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| COMET | Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education |
| CPC | Climate Prediction Center (NOAA/NCEP) |
| D | |
| DOC | Department of Commerce |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| E | |
| ECMWF | European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts |
| EDT | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT is UTC minus 4 hours) |
| ENSO | El Nino/Southern Oscillation |
| EOF | Empirical Orthogonal Function |
| EPIC | East Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System |
| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratories |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation Satellite |
| ESF | Hydrologic Outlook |
| EST | Eastern Standard Time (EST is UTC minus 5 hours) |
| ETL | Environmental Technology Laboratory |
| ESRL | Earth Science Resource Laboratory |
| F | |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FNL | Final Analysis |
| FSL | Forecast Systems Laboratory |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| G | |
| GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
| GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System |
| GDDS | GOES Data Distribution System |
| GDSS | Gauge Data Support System |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
| GIF | Graphics Interface Format |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time (also known as UTC) |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GOES-NEXT | Next Generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GOOS | Global Ocean Observing System |
| GPCP | Global Precipitation Climate Project |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRIB | Gridded Binary |
| GSCP | GOES satellite cloud product |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GSM | Global Spectral Model |
| GSR | Ground-based scanning radiometer |
| H | |
| HDD | Heating Degree Days |
| HPC | Hydrometeorological Prediction Center |
| HRC | Hurricane Research Center |
| HRL | Hydrologic Research Laboratory |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
| HWO | Hazardous Weather Outlook |
| I | |
| ICOADS | International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| INDOEX | Indian Ocean Experiment |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change |
| IR | Infrared |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| ISCS | International Satellite Communications Systems |
| ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
| ISL | Integrated Systems Laboratory |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| ISPAN | Information Stream Processor for AWIPS/NOAAPORT |
| ISWS | Illinois State Water Survey |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITCT | International Transport and Continental Transformation program |
| ITCZ | Intertropical Convergence Zone |
| IWIN | Interactive Weather Information Network |
| J | |
| JAG/AW | Joint Action Group/Aviation Weather |
| JAWF | Joint Agricultural Weather Facility |
| JASMIME | Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Investigation |
| JAWOP | Joint Automated Weather Observation Program |
| JISAO | Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans |
| JOI | Joint Oceanographic Institution |
| K | |
| kB | Kilobyte |
| KWAJEX | Kwajalein Experiment |
| L | |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| LANSAT | Land Satellite |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| LMRFC | Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center |
| LRC | Langley Research Center |
| M | |
| MAPS | Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System |
| MBL | Marine Boundary Layer |
| MARFC | Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center (State College PA) |
| mb | Millibar |
| MBRFC | Missouri Basin River Forecast Center |
| MDL | Meteorological Development Laboratory |
| METAR | Meteorological Aviation Report |
| MRF | Medium Range Forecast |
| MSL | Mean Sea Level |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
| MJO | Madden-Julian Oscillation |
| MMCR | Millimeter Cloud Radar |
| MWR | Microwave radiometer |
| MSC | Meteorological Service of Canada |
| N | |
| NAME | North American Monsoon Experiment |
| NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation |
| NARR | North American Regional Reanalysis |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NCRFC | North Central River Forecast Center |
| NEAQS | New England Air Quality Study |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NEXRAD | Next Generation Weather Radar |
| NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center |
| NGM | Nested Grid Model |
| NHC | National Hurricane Center |
| NIDIS | National Integrated Drought Information System |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| NODC | National Oceanographic Data Center |
| NOS | National Ocean Service |
| NPCO | NOAA Portable Cloud Observatory |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSA | North Slope of Alaska CART site |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
| NSSL | National Severe Storms Laboratory |
| NWRFC | Northwest River Forecast Center (Portland OR) |
| NWS | National Weather Service |
| O | |
| OAR | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research |
| OHD | Office of Hydrologic Development |
| OHRFC | Ohio River Forecast Center (Cincinnati OH) |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| openDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
| OST | Office of Science and Technology |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| P | |
| PACS | Pan American Climate Studies |
| (P)AERI | (Polar) Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer |
| PDI | Palmer Drought Index |
| PNA | Pacific North American (Pattern) |
| PSD | Physical Science Division (of ESRL) |
| Q | |
| QBO | Quasi-Biennial Oscillation |
| R | |
| RCC | Regional Climate Center |
| RFC | River Forecast Center |
| RICO | Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean Experiment |
| S | |
| SCOPE | San Clemente Ocean Probing Experiment |
| SCS | Ship Computer System |
| SEARCH | Study of Environmental Arctic Change |
| SERFC | Southeast River Forecast Center (Atlanta GA) |
| SEC | Space Environment Center |
| SGP | Southern Great Plains CART site |
| SHEBA | Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean |
| SMG | Spaceflight Meteorology Group |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| SPC | Storm Prediction Center (NOAA) |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| T | |
| TAO | TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TOGA | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program |
| TPNN | Trans-Pacific Profiler Network |
| TPC | Tropical Prediction Center |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| USFS | U.S. Forest Service |
| USGCRP | U.S. Global Change Research Program |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| UTC | Coordinated Universal Time (also refered to as GMT) |
| V | |
| W | |
| WAN | Wide Area Network |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
| WGRFC | West Gulf River Forecast Center (Fort Worth TX) |
| WHFS | WFO Hydrologic Forecast System |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WSH | National Weather Service Headquarters |
| WX | Weather |
| WWA | Western Water Assessment |
| X | |
| Y | |
| Z | |
| Z-Time | Slang Term for UTC (Derived from Zulu Time) |
| Zulu Time | Another term for UTC |